Pressures on tropical forests: agriculture, trade and illegality

Pressures on tropical forests: agriculture, trade and illegalityThis chapter reviews some of the main pressures on tropical forests, starting with an overview of recent rates of deforestation. The drivers of this loss of tropical forests are summarised, and the main ones clearance of forests for agriculture, often linked to global trade flows, and, to a lesser extent, logging for timber are analysed in more detail. The key underlying problems of weaknesses in forest governance and law enforcement are discussed,

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focusing in particular on Brazil's 'informal' situation

In the 1960s and 1970s

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Building a neighborly community examines East Asia’s move toward a more institutionalized community through analysing political and economic interfaces between China

section 5 addresses the issue of sustainable water use

conservation

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The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763

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the environment and sustainability